Comments on: garden update http://www.sculpin.com/journal/2006/06/13/garden-update-3/ stargazer, muddler, muffle-jaw, cockatouch, spoonhead, hookear, gudgeon, grubby, blob, bull-rout, blue garnet, miller's thumb Tue, 07 Feb 2012 08:30:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Sculpin » Floods and the farmers market http://www.sculpin.com/journal/2006/06/13/garden-update-3/comment-page-1/#comment-9614 Sculpin » Floods and the farmers market Tue, 14 Nov 2006 18:37:40 +0000 http://www.sculpin.com/journal/2006/06/13/garden-update-3/#comment-9614 [...] I wound up buying some greens I’d never heard of before. “Perpetual spinach” is a sort of spinach-like chard. It tastes to me like a mature spinach crossed with a little sorrel. The market was fairly picked over when we got there, but there were still lots of beautiful bunches of this mysterious stuff that nobody was buying, presumably because they’d never heard of it either. I also got some kale from Whistling Train which is notable mostly in being so delicious that I’d eat it raw. Seriously fantastic. And it’s kale, as in “I am just about desperate enough in mid-winter to eat kale.” [...] [...] I wound up buying some greens I’d never heard of before. “Perpetual spinach” is a sort of spinach-like chard. It tastes to me like a mature spinach crossed with a little sorrel. The market was fairly picked over when we got there, but there were still lots of beautiful bunches of this mysterious stuff that nobody was buying, presumably because they’d never heard of it either. I also got some kale from Whistling Train which is notable mostly in being so delicious that I’d eat it raw. Seriously fantastic. And it’s kale, as in “I am just about desperate enough in mid-winter to eat kale.” [...]

]]> By: Joy http://www.sculpin.com/journal/2006/06/13/garden-update-3/comment-page-1/#comment-4385 Joy Tue, 13 Jun 2006 12:14:41 +0000 http://www.sculpin.com/journal/2006/06/13/garden-update-3/#comment-4385 Wow - good on you! It sounds magnificent. Watch out for the wisteria - I keep hearing it's particularly fierce this year. Wow – good on you! It sounds magnificent.

Watch out for the wisteria – I keep hearing it’s particularly fierce this year.

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